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  • Portugal: Regime Detains 15 Cops as Lisbon Police Torture Probe Widens

    Source: US News & World Report

    “Portuguese law enforcement ⁠officials ⁠investigating cases of ⁠alleged torture at two central Lisbon precincts detained ​15 police officers on Tuesday, raising the total number of ‌those charged or arrested to ‌25, police and prosecutors said. In January, prosecutors charged ⁠two ⁠officers with torturing vagrants and migrants and then sharing images ​of their acts in an online chat with dozens of other officers, triggering a broader inquiry. The two are awaiting trial, accused ​of torture, acts of cruelty and abuse of power, ⁠according to ⁠the indictment. One also ⁠faces ​charges of rape, robbery and forgery. Another seven people were detained ​in March. Police confirmed ⁠Tuesday’s detentions that also included one civilian but would not say whether those held were suspected of carrying out torture themselves or of failing to report abuse they had ⁠witnessed in person or in shared videos.” (05/05/26)

    https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-05-05/portugal-detains-15-officers-as-lisbon-police-torture-probe-widens

  • Israel: Court extends caging of activists abduced by pirates

    Source: France 24 [French state media]

    “An Israeli court on Tuesday extended the [caging] of two foreign activists [abducted] from a Gaza-bound flotilla by six days, a lawyer representing them said. Spanish national Saif Abu Keshek and Brazilian Thiago Avila appeared before a court in the southern city of Ashkelon for their second hearing, after being brought to Israel for questioning last week. … The two, held in a prison in Ashkelon, were among dozens of activists aboard a Gaza-bound flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters off the coast of Greece early on Thursday. The other [abducted] activists were taken to the Greek island of Crete and released.” (05/05/26)

    https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260505-israeli-court-extends-detention-of-two-gaza-flotilla-activists-amid-abuse-claims

  • NY: Radical students harass Cornell president after Israel debate clash

    Source: New York Post

    “Cornell University’s president has blasted a group of radical students for hurling abuse and holding him hostage in his own car following an Israel-Palestine debate series at the Ivy League school. The group of rabble-rousers filmed themselves swarming Michael Kotlikoff and trailing him to his vehicle as he was trying to leave the event at the Ithaca, New York, campus last Thursday. Kotlikoff accused the group — who he said have become notorious for spewing verbal and online abuse toward Cornell staffers in the past – of surrounding his car, banging on the windows and blocking him from leaving. The school prez spoke out after the students posted footage on social media of Kotlikoff apparently backing into the group amid the parking lot chaos.” (05/05/26)

    https://nypost.com/2026/05/05/us-news/cornell-president-michael-kotlikoff-accused-of-injuring-2-students-in-parking-lot-clash-after-israel-debate/

  • Microsoft, Google, xAI give US regime access to AI models for security testing

    Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]

    “Tech giants Microsoft, Google and xAI say they will allow the United States federal government access to their new artificial intelligence models for national security testing. The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) at the Department of Commerce announced the agreement on Tuesday amid increasing concerns about the capabilities that Anthropic’s newly unveiled Mythos model could give hackers. Under the new agreement, the US government will be allowed to evaluate the models before deployment and conduct research to assess their capabilities and security risks.” (05/05/26)

    https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/5/5/microsoft-google-xai-give-us-access-to-ai-models-for-security-testing

  • France: Political row over calls for overhaul and €1bn cuts at public broadcaster

    Source: BBC News [UK State Media]

    “France’s public sector broadcasters have been lambasted by a parliamentary committee of enquiry, which recommends closing several channels and cutting their budget by a total of €1bn (£863m). The committee, which held six months of at times acrimonious hearings, levelled charges of left-wing bias at state-owned France Télévisions and Radio France, as well as gross financial waste. But the findings were immediately dismissed as politically-motivated and impractical by industry insiders, who said that the committee’s rapporteur, Charles Alloncle, has a far-right agenda to prepare state TV and radio for privatisation. Criticism has also come from the prime minister and the head of the committee. Alloncle, 32, is an MP for the small Union of the Right for the Republic (UDR) party, an ally of Marine Le Pen’s populist-right National Rally (RN).” (05/05/26)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c052l130d6jo

  • Sudan: Regime accuses Ethiopia and UAE of drone attacks, recalls its ambassador

    Source: The New Arab [UK]

    “The Sudanese government has accused Ethiopia of being behind recent drone attacks on sites including Khartoum airport and recalled its ambassador on Tuesday. A military spokesperson in Sudan said the government has evidence that four drone strikes that have happened since 1 March came from Ethiopia’s Bahir Dar airport. It also accused the United Arab Emirates of supplying the drones. The Sudanese military has been at war with a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces since April 2023, when the RSF stormed the capital. The battles have now shifted towards more drone warfare concentrating in the Kordofan and Blue Nile states.” (05/05/26)

    https://www.newarab.com/news/sudan-military-accuses-ethiopia-and-uae-drone-attacks

  • TN: Republicans consider redrawing US House district covering majority-black Memphis

    Source: SFGate

    “As civil rights advocates protest, Republican lawmakers in several Southern states are seizing on the opportunity afforded by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling to redraw congressional districts ahead of the November midterm elections. The latest state to jump on the redistricting bandwagon is Tennessee, where a special legislative session is to begin Tuesday, a day after a similar session kicked off in Alabama. In Louisiana, lawmakers also are making plans for new U.S. House districts after the Supreme Court last week struck down the state’s current map. The high court’s ruling said Louisiana relied too heavily on race when creating a second [b]lack-majority House district as it attempted to comply with the Voting Rights Act.” (05/05/26)

    https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/tennessee-republicans-will-consider-redrawing-us-22241831.php

  • Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni settle lawsuit ahead of trial

    Source: United Press International

    “Actress and producer Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, her It Ends with Us director and co-star, have settled their lawsuit two weeks ahead of a scheduled federal jury trial. The settlement ends an 18-month legal battle that saw Lively accuse Baldoni of sexual harassment on the 2024 film’s set, then hiring a publicity team to tarnish her reputation online when she complained about it. Baldoni counter-sued Lively for defamation, but that lawsuit was quickly dismissed. The terms of their settlement were not disclosed.” (05/05/26)

    https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2026/05/05/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-settle-lawsuit/6601777982526/

  • House Democrats Urge US State Department to End Silence About Israel’s Nuclear Weapons

    Source: Common Dreams

    “More than two dozen Democratic lawmakers in the US House of Representatives are urging the Trump administration to break its official silence on Israel’s nuclear weapons program, whose existence is almost universally acknowledged even as its origins and status remain shrouded in secrecy. In a letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday, the group of House Democrats led by Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas wrote that ‘Congress has a constitutional responsibility to be fully informed about the nuclear balance in the Middle East, the risk of escalation by any party to this conflict, and the administration’s planning and contingencies for such scenarios,’ particularly as it wages war on Iran in partnership with the Israeli government.” (05/05/26)

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-nuclear-weapons-program

  • Thailand: Regime scraps 2001 maritime territory deal with Cambodia after years of deadlock

    Source: ABC News

    “Thailand’s government on Tuesday terminated a 2001 Memorandum of Understanding with Cambodia that was meant to provide a bilateral framework for resolving overlapping maritime territorial claims. Cambodia said it regretted the Thai Cabinet’s decision but would continue trying to resolve the issue. The two governments signed the agreement to peacefully pursue maritime boundary delimitation and provide a framework for jointly managing marine resources in accordance with international law. But they failed to make any progress after five rounds of talks over the past two decades.” (05/05/26)

    https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/thailand-scraps-2001-maritime-territory-deal-cambodia-after-132665662


  • Congress Gave Away Its Authority To Declare War and Enabled Trump’s Iran War

    Source: Reason
    by Fiona Harrigan

    “Congress hasn’t voted to declare war since 1942, yet the legislative branch constantly refuses to rein in presidents.” (05/05/26)

    https://reason.com/2026/05/05/congress-and-the-executive-enabled-illegal-war-in-iran/

  • US Debt Crosses 100% of GDP for First Time Since 1946 — And This Time Is Different

    Source: The Daily Economy
    by Romina Boccia

    “US public debt has reached 100 percent of GDP (gross domestic product) for the first time since the aftermath of World War II. Just because we have been here before, and we managed, doesn’t mean we will do so again. This time is different in important ways that are underappreciated by both policymakers and the public. In 1946, the United States emerged from a global war with high debt, but also with a young population, strong growth prospects, and a political commitment to fiscal restraint. Today, America faces the opposite: an aging population, structurally rising entitlement spending, and persistent deficits with no credible plan to rein them in.” (05/05/26)

    https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/us-debt-crosses-100-of-gdp-for-first-time-since-1946-and-this-time-its-different/

  • AI Regulation: More of the Risk, Less of the Benefit

    Source: Garrison Center
    by Thomas L Knapp

    “‘Whatever can happen,’ Augustes De Morgan wrote in 1866, ‘will happen if we make trials enough.’ To which I must add, if ‘we’ don’t make trials enough, someone else will. AI will inevitably be pushed to whatever, if any, limit it has. If American researchers can’t legally do it, Chinese researchers will do it. If Chinese researchers can’t legally do it, Swiss researchers will do it. If every government on the planet imposes pesky regulations on doing it, people who don’t care about pesky government regulations will do it. … Those of us who are allowed to avail ourselves of the most advanced AI possible will disproportionately reap whatever rewards it produces. Those of us for whom maximal AI is forbidden fruit will be more vulnerable to AI’s dark sides.” (05/05/26)

    https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20565

  • Against a New Cold War

    Source: Liberal Currents
    by Craig Johnson

    “Contrary to what your high school textbook and film franchises like ‘Rambo’ and ‘Red Dawn’ taught you, the Cold War was not primarily a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. That’s what the US teaches because it frames the war as something the US won — the Soviets are gone, after all — and because it relegates most of the actual violence of the war to the status of sideshow or backdrop to the “real” story of the war, the superpower rivalry. This version of the Cold War is real and lethal, but limited to proxy wars conducted in places white people don’t live, with the occasional spy thriller thrown in to mix things up. … Rather than a hypothetical conflict that occasionally got heated, The Cold War was a series of extremely violent and very real wars in which millions of people all over the world died.” (05/05/26)

    https://www.liberalcurrents.com/against-a-new-cold-war/

  • Trump’s Crusade Against the Holy See

    Source: Exiled Policy
    by Nick Gambill

    “Leo XIV, in the role of Pontiff, does not act as a political figure. The Pope has no elections to run. His job is to safeguard doctrine, maintain the unity of the Church, and serve as a spiritual authority. This makes the President’s attack against the Pope unusually preposterous.” (05/05/26)

    https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/trumps-crusade-against-the-holy-see

  • California voters fed up with Democrats may turn to Steve Hilton for change

    Source: Fox News Forum
    by Liz Peek

    “In 2016, then-presidential candidate Trump famously asked Black voters ‘What do you have to lose?’ Trump challenged African American voters to rethink their long-standing allegiance to the Democrat Party, which, he rightly claimed, took them for granted and had failed to deliver on the most pressing demands of African American families, including providing their kids with a good education. Steve Hilton, a Republican and former Fox News host, running to become governor of deep blue California, should be posing that same question to Golden State voters. California is one of the most expensive places to live in the country, entirely because of decisions made by Democrats who have controlled the state with a two-thirds supermajority in the legislature since 2018 and also occupied the governor’s mansion since 2011.” [editor’s note: It was one of the most expensive states to live in LONG before 2011 – TLK] (05/05/26)

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/liz-peek-california-voters-fed-democrats-may-turn-steve-hilton-change

  • Mexico seeks to clean house, its way

    Source: Christian Science Monitor
    by staff

    “As reported in the Monitor last week, the recent U.S. indictment of 10 Mexican officials poses a key test for President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo: how best to balance pressures from its neighbor and largest trading partner with the domestic imperative to defend sovereignty – while also tackling cartel crime and serving justice for ordinary Mexicans? More broadly, this development also tests both countries’ determination to collaboratively pursue legitimate shared interests in a way that stabilizes rather than further disrupts already-shaky economic, political, and security relations. Last Thursday, President Sheinbaum said the U.S. request for extradition of the 10 officials did not provide enough evidence for arrests. Instead, she said, Mexican prosecutors would investigate the cases to determine evidence of criminality. Her declaration came in the wake of increasing unease after a roadway incident in late April pointed to CIA involvement inside Mexico.” (05/04/26)

    https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0504/Mexico-seeks-to-clean-house-its-way

  • In Russia, Victory Day Is Starting to Feel Like Defeat

    Source: The Bulwark
    by Cathy Young

    “Last week, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Victory Day parade in Moscow’s Red Square, which for decades has served as a symbol of Russian military power, will be drastically scaled back. Tanks and other military hardware will not be rolling across Red Square; there will be only a column of soldiers and military academy students marching on foot. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made no secret of the fact that the reason for this decision was the ‘terrorist threat’ from Ukraine — that is, the fear of drone strikes. … Elena Malakhovskaya, a host on the Khodorkovsky Live webcast, summed up the situation another way: ‘In the fifth year of the war, it’s Zelensky who decides whether Putin can appear at the parade on Red Square.'” (05/05/26)

    https://www.thebulwark.com/p/in-russia-victory-day-is-starting-to-feel-like-defeat-ukraine-war-drone-parade-putin

  • The Empire Can No Longer Hide Its Ugly Nature

    Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
    by Caitlin Johnstone

    “As the US ramps up its aggressions against Iran and Cuba under the supervision of psychopathic empire managers like Rubio, more and more eyes are opening to the depraved nature of the imperial power structure. It used to be challenging to help westerners recognize the truth that we are ruled by monsters and everything we learned in school about our nation and our world is a lie. Now it’s just becoming the mainstream normie understanding as people see more and more evidence of the empire’s savagery all around them. There’s only so many atrocities you can witness on your social media feed before reality begins to dawn and free your mind from the propaganda-induced trance it was groomed into. The empire couldn’t hide its ugly face forever.” (05/05/26)

    https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/05/05/new-issue-of-johnstone-the-empire-can-no-longer-hide-its-ugly-nature/

  • The Enemy of My Enemy Is a Really Big Dragon

    Source: Liberalism.org
    by Sarah Skwire

    “I read some really great political theory this week. And unlike Plato’s Republic or Aristotle’s Politics, this book had a dragon. Joe Hill’s most recent novel, King Sorrow, takes its main characters and its readers on a scary and suspenseful exploration of the dubious wisdom of the claim that ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend.’ That old political saw gets hauled out from the back corner of the basement whenever it seems expedient to make a morally dubious alliance with a stronger power. Hill’s novel, a deliciously gory and smart bit of horror in its own right, exposes the ethical void at the center of such alliances.” (05/05/26)

    https://www.liberalism.org/p/the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-a-really-big-dragon

  • Iranian-Americans (aside from a few gun-running social media mavens) want regime gone

    Source: New York Post
    by Joel Kotkin

    “The Trump administration has been cracking down on a handful of Iranian residents who have ties to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and have even allegedly been involved in gun-running while living lavish lifestyles in LA. That may leave the impression that this community might not support attempts to overthrow the Islamic Republic. Nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, California’s Persian community is overwhelmingly opposed to the regime. A survey done recently by the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans found that barely 3% of Iranian-Americans favor the current regime, while an additional 8% would welcome a reformed Islamic Republic.” (05/04/26)

    https://nypost.com/2026/05/04/opinion/iranian-americans-want-irgc-gone/

  • How the waste in healthcare drives the US debt

    Source: Los Angeles Times
    by James Weinstein

    “Washington treats healthcare spending like a moral obligation and interest payments like an accounting nuisance. They’re linked: Federal spending that is wasted in the healthcare system forces higher taxes or more borrowing, leaving less money for Medicare, defense or anything else. To slow deficit spending and the ballooning costs of the national debt, policymakers should start by eliminating a large preventable expense: waste in U.S. healthcare.” (05/05/26)

    https://archive.is/YQHi9

  • Demographics, not the Supreme Court, are killing racial gerrymandering

    Source: The Hill
    by Merrill Matthews

    “There’s been no shortage of expressed outrage from the left in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which significantly limits states’ efforts at racial gerrymandering. A Salon headline captures the progressive indignation: ‘Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act in ‘Jim Crow 2.0 ruling.’’ The left can never be accused of understatement. But the change needed to happen because U.S. demographics are making racial gerrymandering increasingly difficult. And that’s a good thing.” (05/05/26)

    https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5862711-voting-rights-act-challenges/

  • The Fertility Panic Is a Racist, Sexist Tool to Push More Austerity

    Source: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
    by Julie Hollar

    “If you haven’t heard the argument that civilization is about to collapse because women aren’t having enough babies, you haven’t been consuming much media. ‘The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn’t as Bad as You’ve Heard — It’s Worse,’ announced The Atlantic (6/30/25). Business Insider (8/21/25) ran a piece titled ‘America’s Great People Shortage,’ which opened, ‘America is about to tumble off the edge of a massive demographic cliff.’ And NPR’s Brian Mann warned on PBS (4/10/26) that, as a result of the birth rate decline, ‘many people say’ that the US soon ‘will be unrecognizable.’ It’s repeatedly in the news in part because it’s a priority of the ‘pronatalist’ right, which has prominent backers in the Trump administration.” (05/05/26)

    https://fair.org/home/the-regressive-ideologies-behind-the-baby-bust-panic/

  • Synformation: Epistemic Capture Meets AI

    Source: Brownstone Institute
    by Robert Malone

    “In my role as Co-chairperson and member of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, I have been participating in a training course regarding the GRADE methodology for public health decision-making. The acronym stands for Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation, and this methodology is intended to provide a structured, transparent framework to evaluate the quality (certainty) of evidence and the strength of recommendations derived from that evidence. … The GRADE approach assumes that, in the case of peer-reviewed clinical and epidemiological data (otherwise referred to as ‘evidence-based medicine’), individual studies will reflect various forms of bias (structural, intentional, or unintended), but when systematically analyzed as a collection of information, these biases will either cancel each other out or (if bias is detected) can be statistically compensated for. What could possibly go wrong? Clearly, something did.” (05/05/26)

    https://brownstone.org/articles/synformation-epistemic-capture-meets-ai/

  • Apple’s New CEO Has a Major Opportunity to Ditch Politics

    Source: The Daily Economy
    by Isaac Willour

    “Companies whose products and ideas change the world for the better don’t need to chase activists’ applause.” (05/05/26)

    https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/apples-new-ceo-has-a-major-opportunity-to-ditch-politics/

  • Proposed Accountability Rule for United States Colleges and Universities

    Source: Show-Me Institute
    by Patrick Johann

    “Earlier this month, the United States Department of Education proposed a regulatory framework to hold postsecondary educational institutions accountable for their students’ labor market and earnings outcomes. Under the proposed rule, students risk losing eligibility for federal loans and, in some cases, Pell Grants, if they are enrolled in undergraduate programs whose graduates’ earnings fail to exceed those of a typical high school graduate. Graduate programs face similar consequences should their graduates earn less than the average bachelor’s degree holder. Though the benchmarks are modest, in the sense that most college programs will meet these criteria, some will not. And the consequences for college programs are severe, as most universities rely heavily on federally subsidized tuition dollars.” (05/05/26)

    https://showmeinstitute.org/article/education/proposed-accountability-rule-for-united-states-colleges-and-universities/

  • Between Iran and a Hard Place

    Source: The American Conservative
    by Ted Snider

    “The Gulf states have tried very hard to stay out of the war on Iran. But they are home to one of the largest American forward military deployments in the world, a network of 13 U.S. bases and 40,000 U.S. troops that has made the war possible. Kuwait hosts more U.S. bases than any other country in the region. Bahrain is home to the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet. Qatar hosts Al Udeid Air Base, the largest U.S. military facility in the region and a headquarters for U.S. Central Command. In the UAE is Al Dhafra Air Base, from which Washington coordinates intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. Saudi Arabia is home to the Prince Sultan Air Base.” (05/05/26)

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/between-iran-and-a-hard-place/

  • Time for Jerome Powell to Go Home

    Source: Town Hall
    by Stephen Moore

    “The man just won’t leave the stage. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell announced last week that he’s going to remain on the Federal Reserve Board until 2028, even as he, by law, surrenders his chairmanship. The announcement came even after President Donald Trump agreed to drop his unwise lawsuit against Powell for funding a $2 billion new Taj Mahal building down the street from the White House. Powell will be the first Fed chair to stay on the Fed’s Board of Directors in 50 years. This isn’t the way it’s done. It’s bad form. Only once did he come within spitting distance of his inflation target. February 2021 was the only month in his whole tenure when inflation hit the range of 1.8 percent to 2.2 percent. He’s retiring with a batting average of .011.” (05/05/26)

    https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2026/05/05/time-for-jerome-powell-to-go-home-n2675537

  • A great deal of ruin

    Source: Cobden Centre
    by Tim Price

    “The crowning irony of our times is that after the 20th Century revealed the essential futility and moral and economic bankruptcy of totalitarian socialism, most western governments have cheerfully embraced it.” (05/05/26)

    https://www.cobdencentre.org/2026/05/a-great-deal-of-ruin/

  • Markets, Government, and the Middle Path: LLI Nepal’s Liberty Chit-Chat in Butwal

    Source: Liberty International
    by staff

    “On April 4, 2026, our partners at the Language of Liberty Institute (LLI) hosted a Liberty Chit-Chat in Butwal, Rupandehi, on a question that sits at the heart of every modern economy: where should the market end and the government begin? Held at K6 Pizza and Bar from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., the three-and-a-half-hour discussion brought together twenty-nine participants from across Lumbini Province for an open, structured conversation on the role of state intervention in a free market economy.” (05/05/26)

    https://liberty-intl.org/2026/05/04/markets-government-and-the-middle-path-lli-nepals-liberty-chit-chat-in-butwal/

  • America’s hate-hate affair with Iran: A collision course for the ages

    Source: Responsible Statecraft
    by Eldar Mamedov

    “Two months after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, a tense standoff prevails. There is no active warfare, but no signs of a diplomatic breakthrough either. The war is a culmination of a 47-year trajectory which set the U.S. and Iran on this collision course. Mutual hostility was the norm since 1979, and even rare openings, such as the cooperation in a post-Taliban Afghanistan in 2002, or a landmark nuclear pact in 2015, failed to change that path to a more functional relationship.” (05/05/26)

    https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-us-relations-history/

  • Can a Revolution Be Lawful?

    Source: Law & Liberty
    by Michael Lucchese

    “Strictly speaking, there can be no such thing as a positive legal right to revolution — certainly not for citizens of the United States. Though there have been various insurrections against federal authority throughout our history, only one came close to succeeding: the Southern Rebellion of 1861–65. Even as states were seceding to join the revolutionary Confederacy, Abraham Lincoln insisted that their actions were constitutionally null and void. … But while revolution may never be strictly legal, as Lincoln acknowledged, it may be necessary in order to preserve liberty and even what we might call the ‘natural law.'” [editor’s note: The southern secession was unambiguously “legal” by both omission (the Articles of Confederation declared themselves perpetual, the Constitution didn’t) and inclusion (under the 10th Amendment the power to dissolve the “union” clearly remains with the states – TLK] (05/05/26)

    https://lawliberty.org/can-a-revolution-be-lawful/

  • Trump Continues to Falsely Claim He Eliminated Taxes on Social Security

    Source: Common Dreams
    by Martin Burns & Mary Liz Burns

    “At a campaign-like rally at The Villages, a retirement community near Orlando, Florida, President Donald Trump continued his campaign of deception about his record on Social Security. As he has many times in the last several months, Trump falsely claimed that his ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ eliminated taxes. This time however Trump took his campaign of deception to a higher level. The background for Trump included the words ‘Golden Age for Your Golden Years’ and ‘No Tax on Social Security’. Unfortunately, many in the mainstream media simply ignore Trump’s continued falsehoods on Social Security. Let’s look at the facts. The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ did not eliminate taxes on Social Security. Indeed, the legislative process, ‘reconciliation,’ which the Republicans used to pass the legislation, prohibits these types of changes in Social Security.” (05/05/26)

    https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-lies-social-security-tax

  • What do anti-abortion activists actually want? Confusion.

    Source: USA Today
    by Sara Pequeño

    “Abortion access has once again been called into question, jeopardizing the health of millions of American women in the process and creating chaos. This is the reality of what the 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization did to our ability to access health care. On May 1, a federal appeals court in Louisiana temporarily halted the prescription of the abortifacient mifepristone via telehealth, effectively kneecapping abortion services nationwide. Then, on May 4, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated mail-order abortion services for a week while the justices considered the issue. This kind of confusion has been part of the goal all along.” (05/05/26)

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/05/05/supreme-court-mifepristone-ruling-temporary-abortion-pill/89927414007/

  • Why the Courts Will 86 the Flagrantly Unconstitutional Charges Against James Comey

    Source: Reason
    by Jacob Sullum

    “The case defies more than half a century of rulings on the ‘true threat’ exception to the First Amendment.” (05/05/26)

    https://reason.com/2026/05/05/why-the-courts-will-86-the-flagrantly-unconstitutional-charges-against-james-comey/